Govt creates database for former Wenela workers

GOVERNMENT has created a database of thousands of Zimbabweans, who used to work in South African mines, as it engages that country’s government to release their pensions.

Thousands of Zimbabweans migrated to South Africa in the 1970s to work in the mines, but their pensions are yet to be released by the mining companies.

Social Welfare deputy minister Tapiwa Matangaidze said the government is in the final stages of engagement with their South African counterparts to facilitate the transfer of the pensions and other benefits to the National Social Security Authority (NSSA)

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